
Akwa Ibom state police command
arrested a 51-year-old woman, Rose Edward, for allegedly buying a two month old baby for N450,000, NAN reports.
According to the report, the police also
arrested a homeopathic doctor, Eneyo Nyang and mother of the baby, Comfort Effiong, for their alleged roles in the crime.
Akwa Ibom commissioner of
police, Murtala Mani disclosed this to newsmen on Saturday, October 22 in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital.
Edward from Rivers state
confessed to have bought the baby because she needed a baby of her own.
Comfort Effiong, said that she sold her
baby because there was no one to take care
of her.
She said:
“I sold the baby because of help; I
don’t have anybody to help me. My father is
late and my mother is sick and I don’t have
anybody to help me.”
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